The Niger Bend | A Selection of Our Best Items |
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$250.00 3 Shangos
item #255Nigeria - Yoruba Click on the photo to see all 3 shangos. The first one is 11". The second is 17" ($350.) The third is 15" ($300.) | $750.00 Animal and man head stool
item #828Nigeria - Yoruba 10 3/8 x 9" top, 14 5/8" tall |
$750.00 Animal stool
item #829Nigeria - Yoruba 8" diameter top, 11 1/2 x 12 1/2" overall, 10 1/2" tall | $1950.00 Benin brass head
item #794Nigeria - Yoruba 14 1/2" tall. |
$495.00 Brass turtle equestrian pot
item #354Nigeria - Yoruba | $900.00 Ceremonial vessel
item #208Nigeria - Yoruba This 7 1/2" tall object is a fine reproduction of an 11th century Ife piece. There is a male figure "wrapped around a vessel positioned on the circular platform of a stool. The figure holds the looped handle of the stool with its left hand and a scepter in its right." The original is made of zinc brass and measures 4 7/8" tall and is the property of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments in Nigeria. |
$1800.00 Epa ceremony Gelede mask
item #395Nigeria - Yoruba This mask is 43" tall. It is used during the annual Epa festival which celebrates the important social roles of a town: its chiefs, farmers, warriors, hunters, priests, and women. The climax of the festival occurs when male dancers appear, surrounded by their followers and wearing tall, heavy masks like this one, receiving salutations, praise names, and songs. This mask celebrates a warrior, represented by the equestrian figure which it the central theme of the mask. Please click on the image to see a side view of this beautiful mask. | $2500.00 Equestrian
item #214Nigeria - Yoruba |
$2500.00 Equestrian warrior
item #949Nigeria - Yoruba 20 3/4 x 14 x 43 1/2" tall | $500.00 Guelede mask featuring couple copulating
item #181Nigeria - Yoruba |
$800.00 Ibeji figureSOLD 
item #467Nigeria - Yoruba 8 1/2" Please click on the image to see other views of this beautiful figure. | $600.00 Ibeji figure
item #398Nigeria - Yoruba 10 3/4" tall. Please click on the image to see other views which show the pronounced facial scarification which distinguishes this fine piece. |
$600.00 Ibeji figure
item #468Nigeria - Yoruba 9" tall. Please click the image to see more views. | $400.00 Ibeji figureSOLD 
item #470Nigeria - Yoruba 9" tall. Please click on the image for more views of this very fine figure. |
$750.00 Ibeji figure
item #471Nigeria - Yoruba 10 3/4" tall. Please click on the image for more views of this very beautiful ibeji. | $750.00 Ibeji figure
item #473Nigeria - Yoruba 11" tall. Please click on the image for more views of this very beautiful ibeji. |
$800.00 Ibeji figureSOLD 
item #474Nigeria - Yoruba 11 1/2" tall. Please click on the image for more views of this very fine ibeji. | $500.00 Ibeji figure
item #475Nigeria - Yoruba 13" tall. Please click on the image for another view of this fine Ibeji. |
$500.00 Ibeji figure
item #484Nigeria - Yoruba 10 3/4" tall. Please click on the image for 2 more views of this Ibeji. | $900.00 Ibeji twins
item #644Nigeria - Yoruba 9" tall. Please click to see another view |
$900.00 Ibeji twins
item #476Nigeria - Yoruba 9" tall. Please click on the image for another view of this beautiful pair of twins. | $1200.00 Ibeji twins
item #477Nigeria - Yoruba One is 10 1/4" tall, the other 10 3/4" tall. Please click on the image to see another view. |
$600.00 Ibeji twins
item #485Nigeria - Yoruba 8" tall. Please click on the image for 2 more views of this nice pair. | $1200.00 Ife head
item #652Nigeria - Yoruba This beautiful ceramic Ife head measures 14"; the overall measurement is 17" tall. |
$400.00 Martins Omowumi John - Oshogbo artist
item #420Nigeria - Yoruba I met Martins in the Fall of 2003 after he found this website and contacted me to ask me to showcase his paintings here. I was impressed by his aggressive promotion of his art and I loved his paintings. In the 1960s a European artist went to southwestern Nigeria to Oshogbo in Yorubaland. She set up an art school to teach young Nigerians to paint using European techniques with their own uniquely African inspiration. Martins is a modern day student of that school. He was born in Lagos State on April 4th 1974. In 1984 his father, who worked for the National Electric Power Authority of Nigeria, was transfered to Oshogbo in Osun State and moved his 10 children there with him. He is the second of 10 children and the first to grow up in the Land of Art and Culture which is Oshogbo. Growing up surrounded by that artistic presence convinced him that was his destiny. Martins only income is from the sale of his paintings. His dream is to see his work spread around the world. Please click on Martins portrait to see 1 of his paintings. It measures 20 1/2 x 25". It is entitled Togetherness. Its price is $400, UNFRAMED. If you would like for us to frame yours for you, we can do it for just $100 more. See The Entertainer, framed, below. Please see more of Martins paintings a short way further down this page and also at the bottom of the page. | $400.00 More Wumight Oshogbo paintings - Second set
item #421Nigeria - Yoruba Martins signs his paintings "Wumight". This painting is entitled The Trumpets. Please click on this image to view 2 more: the second one is entitled Dancing to the Rhythms, the third is Drummer and Dancer. All of the Wumight paintings we have on this site are the same size, 20 1/2 x 25". Each is the same price, $400, UNFRAMED. If you would like for us to frame yours for you, we can do it for just $100 more. See The Entertainer, framed, below. |
$400.00 More Wumight Oshogbo paintings - Set 10
item #737Nigeria - Yoruba This painting is entitled The Entertainer. Please click on the image to see 2 more of Martins paintings. The second one is The Elite of the Village. The third one is called The Drum Player. They all measure 20 1/2 x 25". Each is the same price, $400, UNFRAMED. If you would like for us to frame yours for you, we can do it for just $100 more. See The Entertainer, framed, above. | $400.00 More Wumight Oshogbo paintings - Set 11
item #738Nigeria - Yoruba This painting is entitled Dancing to the Drum. Please click on the image to see 2 more of Martins paintings. The second one is The Drummer. The third one is called The Beggar. They all measure 20 1/2 x 25". Each is the same price, $400, UNFRAMED. If you would like for us to frame yours for you, we can do it for just $100 more. See The Entertainer, framed, above. |
$400.00 More Wumight Oshogbo paintings - Set 5
item #732Nigeria - Yoruba This painting is entitled The Instrumentalist. Please click on the image to see 2 more of Martins paintings. The second one is Thirsting in the Desert. The third one is called The Power of Affection. They all measure 20 1/2 x 25". Each is the same price, $400, UNFRAMED. If you would like for us to frame yours for you, we can do it for just $100 more. See The Entertainer, framed, below. | $400.00 More Wumight Oshogbo paintings - Set 6
item #733Nigeria - Yoruba All of these paintings are unnamed. They all measure 20 1/2 x 25". Each is the same price, $400, UNFRAMED. If you would like for us to frame yours for you, we can do it for just $100 more. See The Entertainer, framed, above. |
$400.00 More Wumight Oshogbo paintings - Set 7
item #734Nigeria - Yoruba All of these paintings are unnamed. Please click on the image to see 2 more of Martins great contemporary African paintings. They all measure 20 1/2 x 25". Each is the same price, $400, UNFRAMED. If you would like for us to frame yours for you, we can do it for just $100 more. See The Entertainer, framed, above. | $400.00 More Wumight Oshogbo paintings - Set 8
item #735Nigeria - Yoruba This painting is entitled The Abundance of the River. Please click on the image to see 2 more of Martins paintings. The second and third are unnamed. They all measure 20 1/2 x 25". Each is the same price, $400, UNFRAMED. If you would like for us to frame yours for you, we can do it for just $100 more. See The Entertainer, framed, above. |
$400.00 More Wumight Oshogbo paintings - Set 9
item #736Nigeria - Yoruba This painting is entitled Merry Makers. Please click on the image to see 2 more of Martins paintings. The second one is Jubilation. The third one is called The Generational Houses. They all measure 20 1/2 x 25". Each is the same price, $400, UNFRAMED. If you would like for us to frame yours for you, we can do it for just $100 more. See The Entertainer, framed, above. | $450.00 Pregnant woman body
item #187Benin - Yoruba |
$800.00 single male ibeji
item #397Nigeria - Yoruba 10 1/4" tall. Please click on the image to see 2 more views of this old, authentic figure. | $500.00 The Entertainer - FRAMED Martins Omowumi John painting
item #739Nigeria - Yoruba This painting of Martins has been framed to show one way we can frame your painting. Most of the paintings of his that we sell are sold UNFRAMED but we can frame them, in this or other ways, if you prefer. The overall dimensions are 26 1/4 x 21 1/2". The frame is a simple wood: oak, maple, walnut, cherry, depending on availability, with plexiglass. |
$400.00 Wumight Oshogbo paintings - Set 4
item #423Nigeria - Yoruba This painting is entitled The Deep Thinker. Please click on this image to view 2 more: The 2nd one is Sekere Player, the 3rd is Harvest. All measure the same, 20 1/2 x 25". Each is the same price, $400, UNFRAMED. If you would like for us to frame yours for you, we can do it for just $100 more. See The Entertainer, framed, below. Please see more of Martins work at the bottom of this page. | $400.00 Wumight Oshogbo paintings - Third Set
item #422Nigeria - Yoruba This painting is entitled Peak of the Drum. Please click on the image to view another of Martins paintings, entitled Jubilation. They both measure 20 1/2 x 25". Each is the same price, $400, UNFRAMED. If you would like for us to frame yours for you, we can do it for just $100 more. See The Entertainer, framed, below. |
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